The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.